Here I Am

WOW! I knew that it had been a long time since I had posted anything but I definitely did not realize that it had been over a YEAR! Considering that when I originally created this blog, I was dealing with quite a bit and was using it as a way to process all of the emotions and trials in my life, no big issues in the last year that needed that much thought means that the last year has been pretty damn good if I do say so myself! I already knew how to give everything to God, but I learned how to truly let go. Not that things don't still get to me, they do, but no longer in the way where they hang on forever.

In the last year, I have become a more confident person, a more relaxed person, a more peaceful person, a happier person. And on top of all of that, I officially earned my doctorate!

How's that for a badass year?

xoxo

Brains

I just spent the last weekend with two of my best friends. We were competing in a national pharmacy compounding competition and got 3rd place in the compounding section! The teams that won overall, almost all had been at the competition for multiple years in a row, so beating these teams in the heaviest weighted section was so exciting! Our compounding professor looked as though she had never been more proud of her students.

The funny thing about this, is that all of us, at least once during this section, had thought we were going to cry (even though I was pretty positive that my teammates knew more about what they were doing than I did.) We had gone into this competition feeling prepared and were given a problem that was nothing along the lines of anything we had ever practiced....and succeeded beyond our belief in ourselves. We got to the point where we figured we would just throw shit together and cross our fingers - apparently we know more than we thought we did!

This just goes to show that you are almost always smarter than you think and the more you work hard and believe in yourself, the more you will succeed in life and in each adventure that you undertake. We signed up for the local competition to spend some time in the compounding lab, we had no idea that there was anything to win - and we ended up traveling to Florida to compete nationally for our school against 14 other schools, even beating out many of them! We were smarter and more capable than we thought and are determined to prove it next time!

Believe in yourself and your abilities and you can go places that you never dreamed possible.

Head colds

So....I woke up yesterday morning...that's the beginning of a lie - I went to bed on Sunday night with the telltale beginnings of a nasty head cold. Luckily, so far this has turned into a regular head cold, not one of the nasty variety. Not that that really helps, it just means that I only sound a little sick, not massively-stay-away-from-me sick. Anyways, my roommate had some phenylephrine - aka Sudafed, so I took some of that before I went to class. Now, I am a pharmacy student and I try very hard not to take medications I don't need. But this, this stuff works. I had to go to bed last night, not because I was tired, but because I was so congested that I couldn't focus. I managed to get the entire way through class totally fine. Now, don't just take this, there are side effects involved and it can interact with certain medications, so make sure you ask your pharmacist before taking over-the-counter (or in this case behind-the-counter) medications. But one thing is for sure, there are very few cold medications that work for me, and this one does.